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serenity blaze
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since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

0 posted 2003-05-06 06:21 AM

I had slept a solid week
dreamwalking
of movement--slow...
and then I heard the telephone
I answered--
he spoke casual:

"I do believe my Father's dead."
I thought he was just being cruel.
"This is not the least funny..."
He told me he just didn't know.
He said his father was asleep--
in the chair, there, watching news.
He said his Dad, was cold to touch.
He said his father's eyes were vague.
Open to the ceiling, rough...
I closed my eyes, remembering...

I knew...I knew...I knew...He said:
"I tried to awaken him."
I knew--just knew--another death.
He asked me, then, "What should I do?"

"Baby?" I heard his voice break.
I heard him sob, "Oh baby please..."
"Baby?" "help-me-please-I-beg..."
"Baby? Babe? Oh I need you..."

So I did it. Once again...
but this time? I was alone.
His mother fell at the casket.
I ladeled scotch down sister's throat.
I watched the Masons tossing rose--
the firemen changed honor guard,
every quarter to the hour--
then he got the gun's salute.
Somehow? I did it--once again...
somehow I did that for our "Dads".

Different
from just one week...
when I saw my father laid
so thin to rest
of little grieve--
Cancer
begs a pardon's
wreath--

Prayers boast of selflessness:
"Not like this--no? not like this."

[This message has been edited by serenity blaze (05-06-2003 06:23 AM).]

Sunshine

Administrator

Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2003-05-06 06:29 AM

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

2 posted 2003-05-06 07:45 AM

hugs

Janet Marie
Member Laureate

since 2000-01-22

Posts 18554

3 posted 2003-05-06 10:38 AM

oh damn Karen.................

....... ........ .......

( no words will define the chill that just ran thru me)

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

4 posted 2003-05-06 11:54 AM

I can only ditto JM... this hurts hurts hurts.

fayth
Junior Member

since 2003-05-03

Posts 19

5 posted 2003-05-06 05:14 PM

"so thin to rest
of little grieve--
Cancer
begs a pardon's
wreath--"

those words are so touching -they hurt. I liked your poem, very much, it was the truth.

Decaflame
Senior Member

since 2001-05-11

Posts 1635

6 posted 2003-05-06 05:14 PM

...

it's just there, y'know?

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